Booker Taps Ties to Jewish Community in Senate Race

He regularly reads verses from the Torah. He once addressed 700 congregants at a friend's bar mitzvah. In 2011, he took his parents to Israel for a "trip of a lifetime." And he is a staple at seder meals during Passover.

He is Cory Booker, the African-American, Christian mayor of Newark.

The U.S. Senate candidate has immersed himself in Jewish culture and serious Judaic study for two decades, ever since he had an...